Barking and Dagenham: which bins go out tonight?
Find your bin collection schedule, what goes in each bin, and when it's collected in Barking and Dagenham.
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What Barking and Dagenham collects
Mixed recycling or cans
brown bin
What goes in:
- paper
- thin card
- cardboard boxes
- plastic bottles - rinsed and with the lids removed (this includes plastic bottles such as water, milk, bleach, washing up liquid, shampoo, make up, and medicine bottle, disinfectant, plant feed and liquid fertiliser bottles)
- aluminium and steel tins and cans - rinsed
- catalogues and directories
- newspapers, magazines and leaflets
- glass bottles and jars (no drinking glasses or glass cookware like Pyrex dishes)
- paperback books (we encourage you to donate paperback books to your local charity shop, but if they’re not in good enough condition please recycle them after removing any plastic sleeves)
- hardback books (again we encourage you to donate hardback books to your local charity shop, but if they’re not in good enough condition you can recycle them after removing hardback covers and removing any plastic sleeves)
- mixed plastics such as yogurt pots and margarine tubs (when washed)
- empty aerosol cans and clean aluminium foil
What doesn't go in:
- Please don't put batteries in your trash or recycling bins at home because they could start a fire. Instead, you can take them to the Frizlands Lane tip or a recycling station at your local supermarket. Most supermarkets have these.
Source: www.lbbd.gov.uk
Rubbish
grey bin
What goes in:
- food scraps*
- nappies
- cling film
- polystyrene
- meat trays
- plastic food wrapping
- crisp packets and sweet wrappers
- bottle lids
What doesn't go in:
- We will only collect one bin's worth of rubbish from your property. This has to be a council-owned bin, any bins which have been privately purchased will not be emptied. If you have more waste than will fit into your grey bin, take it to one of our reuse and recycling centres.
Barking and Dagenham says: *Some grey bins have a sticker on them that tells you about food waste. This doesn't mean you can't put food scraps in your grey bin. Check to see if you can freeze food or use it in another way before you throw it away.
Source: www.lbbd.gov.uk
Garden waste
green bin
What goes in:
- cut flowers
- weeds
- leaves
- grass cuttings
- hedge trimmings
- twigs
What doesn't go in:
- fruit fall
- plastic
- soil
- stones and rubble
- general household waste
- food waste (including fruit and vegetable peelings)
- plastic bags
- If you put items that are not acceptable into your green bin, we will not be able to empty it and we won't arrange a missed collection. A contamination tag will be placed on the bin explaining that we have not been able to collect, asking that the contaminated items be removed. Photographic evidence may be taken. If your bin is regularly filled with non-green waste, we reserve the right to cease collections and remove the bin permanently, without a refund.
Source: www.lbbd.gov.uk
What Barking and Dagenham says about bin day
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Barking and Dagenham says not to put batteries in your bins at home, as they could start a fire.
From Barking and Dagenham's website (checked 2026-10-23)
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